I like travelling, family history and reading books. I am ESL teacher in High Junior school and at University.

Saturday, 8 October 2016

Sleeping lion the symbol of my city

8th October 2016

It is a market square in my city whee there is a monument of sleeping lion.

The sculpture of the Lion that you can find in the Main Square of Bytom representing the victims whose died in Prussian-French war in 1870-1871. Bytom belonged to the territory of Germany during the war. This Lion was created in 1873. After II world war, monument was destroyed and it appeared in Warsaw.

In 2006 the statue was found in Warsaw zoo and in 2008 Lion has returned to Bytom. Now it stands in the centre of Main Market Square.